Roxy Music
birth name: Brian Peter George St. Baptiste de la Salle Eno
Brian Eno
Ambient pioneer, glam rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist, technological innovator, worldbeat proponent, and self-described non-musician - over the course of his long, prolific, and immensely influential career, Brian Eno was all of these things and much, much more. ~ Allmusic: Brian Eno ~ retrieved February 18, 2014 © Allmusic
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May 15, 1976 ~ Billboard Hot 100 ~ #3 (5) Wings, Silly Love Songs ~ #2 (1) John Sebastian, Welcome Back ~ #1 (3) The Sylvers, Boogie Fever
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His skill at using “The Studio as a Compositional Tool” (the title of an essay by Eno) led in part to his career as a producer. His methods were recognised at the time (mid-1970s) as unique, so much so that on Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, he is credited with 'Enossification'; on Robert Wyatt's Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard with a Direct inject anti-jazz raygun and on John Cale's Island albums as simply being “Eno.” ~ Wikipedia: Brian Eno ~ retrieved January 22, 2016 © Wikipedia
Brian Eno ~ Before & After Science (1977) ~ Ranked #14 NME Best Albums Of 1977.
As a Producer or co-producer
Devo ~ Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) ~ Ranked #76 Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Debut Albums Of All Time in 2013 ~ Most bands try to go for a hot new sound on their debut album. Devo did them all one better with a hot new philosophy - impressing the gospel of societal "devolution" on a Seventies America that definitely needed to hear it. ~ 2013 © Rolling Stone
As a Writer or co-writer
David Bowie ~ Heroes (Bowie/Eno) ~ Named one of the Time 100 All-TIME Greatest Songs in 2011 ~ When U2 went to Berlin to make Achtung Baby, they were trying to make this song. The entire Arcade Fire catalog came out of this song. ~ 2011 © TIME
Roxy Music
a member from 1971 through 1973
Roxy Music defined the tone of 1970s art rock by coupling Bryan Ferry's elegant, wistful romantic irony with initially anarchic and later subdued, lush rock. The band was never as popular in America as it was in Europe, perhaps because its detachment and understatement baffled American tastes. ~ Rolling Stone: Roxy Music ~ retrieved May 12, 2014 © Rolling Stone
Roxy Music ~ Avalon (1982) ~ #442 #DLW500 Dylan's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time in 2012.
In 2004 three Roxy Music albums made it to the Observer Music Monthly 100 Greatest British Albums ~ #29 Stranded (1973) ~ #26 Roxy Music (1972) ~ #23 For Your Pleasure (1973)